Emissaries in early modern literature and culture
Subtitle: mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700
By: edited by Brinda Charry, Gitanjali Shahani.
Contributors: Charry, Brinda.; Shahani, Gitanjali.
Series: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780754662075
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Cultural relations in literature; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History; National characteristics in literature; Colonies in literature; Assimilation (Sociology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Shah's two ambassadors: the travels of the three English brothers and the global early modern / Jonathan Burton; title: Of gifts, ambassadors, and copy-cats: diplomacy, exchange, and difference in early modern India / Ania Loomba; title: Representing the king of Morocco / Virginia Mason Vaughan; title: Just passing: Abbé Carré, spy, harem-lord, and 'made in france' / Pompa Banerjee; title: 'After my humble dutie remembered': factors and versus merchants / Barbara sebek; title: Passengers, spies, emissaries, and merchants: travelers and early modern English identity / M. G. Aune; title: The translator as emissary: continental works about the Ottomans in England / Linda McJannet; title: The Queen of Onor and her emissaries: Fernão Mendes Pinto's dialogue with India / Dolora Chapelle Wojciehowski; title: Listening to the emissary in Middleton's No wit, no help like a woman's / Marianne Montgomery; title: 'Backward and abysm of time': negotiating with the dead in the tempest / Brinda Charry; title: 'Thrown from the rock': emissaries as midwives and impediments of a new world / Sheila T. Cavanagh.